Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said to have made to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain less than a month ago: to withdraw his troops from Spain as soon as the Rebels won the war. On the contrary, there was evidence aplenty that Il Duce intended to use the threat of these troops to gain concessions from France...
...teachers will be selected because they attend Sunday School or marry politicians' cousins. Only when the teacher is generally conceived as a technical expert in the art of teaching will this type of teacher be injected into the veins of secondary education. And only then will secondary schools gain the new life which President Conant sees as essential for the perpetuation of democracy...
John Steinbeck's play appeared on Broadway in November of 1937 and promptly won the Critics Circle prize. To see it is an imperative theatrical errand if only to gain some understanding of the impressive heights to which a gifted handling of realism can raise an exceedingly fictional theme...
...garner every point possible before the slaughter begins in the back and breast strokes. Although he can put a better 400 relay on the mark than can Brown, Harvard's saturnine sage does not want the seven-point last event to decide the meet, preferring, if he can, to gain enough tallies by seconds and thirds and by a possible six points in the quarter to clinch the contest...
...Committee will try to determine by personal interviews what progress its fifty-five tutees have made toward their immediate ends in view. . . . By giving a Cooperative Test in each subject and repeating the same type of test at the end of the year, an attempt will be made to gain a factual estimate of their improvement. In one of these three ways, the Undergraduate Faculty may be able to discover whether it is giving its tutees the benefits they want. Lawrence Lader, co-chairman Undergraduate Faculty Committee...